Menu Flashing in 10.6.8: Font issues? Restore from Time machine?

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Menu Flashing in 10.6.8: Font issues? Restore from Time machine?

One of our designers was having problem with fonts in chrome, ended up cleaning up a font conflict in Font Explorer and somehow must have removed a system font. Now all fonts in menu etc appear as boxes, and to make matters worse, now the menu is blinking which prevents him from doing anything to correct the situation. He tried to use time machine to revert to an earlier version but it wouldn't allow him to.

Any ideas?

iMac 27" 3.3 i3

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Intel + Rosetta)

We tried booting from generic snow leopard disc but it wouldn't work

Can't find the disc it came with.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 5:42 PM

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seventy one

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Feb 3, 2015 11:10 PM in response to paulbies

The Snow leopard discs are machine specific and will only work on the exact model they came with. You will need to buy discs from Apple on line to get the correct ones.

If the machine still shows 10.6 Snow leopard as its OS you could try downloading and applying the 10.6.8 combo updater.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

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paulbies Author

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Feb 4, 2015 6:13 AM in response to seventy one

The Snow Leopard disc we have is off the shelf and intended for all Macs with Intel computers with a 1 GB ram and dvd.

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Eric Root

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Feb 4, 2015 6:48 AM in response to paulbies

What happened when you tried to boot from the Snow Leopard DVD?

CD/DVD Loading Problems

CD/DVD Drive - Troubleshooting See troubleshooting section.

CD/DVD Drive - Troubleshooting (2)

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paulbies Author

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Feb 4, 2015 7:20 AM in response to Eric Root

It simply shows the apple logo and goes no further. It's like the disc is not suited for the mac as mentioned by seventy one however we've used it for a number of different types of macs in the office.

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Jeff Shenk

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Feb 4, 2015 7:37 AM in response to paulbies

Some 27" iMacs shipped with a newer version of Snow Leopard than is available on a retail disc, so they only boot to the installer disc that came with them.

I don't think the newer versions would have installed different System fonts, though, so it would probably work to use Pacifist to install the System fonts from the retail installer.

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